It has become necessary to examine them in depth and suggest forward action.Replying to LG’s decision, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said there should be an independent scrutiny of the files.Najeeb Jung setup a three-member panel to fix responsibilities, including criminal liability. “Let an independent three member committee scrutinize all files cleared by Modiji also n lets compare the results,” he tweeted..The committee will recommend course of action to be taken on each of the files/proposals including whether the decisions can or cannot be regularised by the Lt Governor, said Jung’s office.In response, around 400 files have been received by the LG’s Secretariat for ex-post facto approval of Jung and some more files are awaited.
The committee has been tasked to look into “omissions and commissions” in the decision-making process and also to fix responsibility of individuals, including civil and criminal liability, if any, the LG’s office said.It said the panel will determine whether the decisions taken in these files and the processes adopted were in violation of the Acts/Rules and the constitutional scheme.The panel will examine the role played by the public functionaries and officers of the Delhi government and of any other individual related with these violations and fix responsibility, said the LG’s office. Therefore, the Committee has been constituted,” it said in a statement.After the high court judgment, the principal secretaries and heads of department of the city government were directed by the LG to review instances where his prior approval was required as per rules, but was not obtained.Various departments of the city government have submitted the files to Jung following a directive from him in the wake of the high court order.
The committee, hollow glass magnesium sandwich panel which has been asked to submit its final report within six weeks of its first meeting, will fix responsibility of individuals, including civil and criminal liability, if there was any. New Delhi: A three-member panel was setup by Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday to fix responsibilities, including criminal liability, in “omissions and commissions” while clearing 400 files relating to a large number of decisions without his approval. The Lt Governor has been having a long-running battle with the AAP government on a host of jurisdictional issues.The appointment of the panel, comprising former CAG V K Shunglu, former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and ex-Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar, comes over three weeks after the Delhi High Court ruled that the Lt Governor is the administrative head of the city government.
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